People: Derring-Do

In El Paso, on her way to Spokane, Mob-land's pin-up moll Virginia Hill, whose Austrian ski-instructor husband Hans Hauser has been ordered to leave the country, turned her temper on some unarmed reporters, slapped one, slugged another with her spike heel, then gave a statement: "The happiest day of my life will be when I leave this damn country." When her plane put down in Denver, she took a swing at the nearest stranger, apologized when she found the man was not another reporter, but merely an investigator from the District Attorney's office who wanted to ask some questions. Said she...

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